Biden Announces Largest Single-Day Act of Clemency in Modern History

The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

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President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes.
Time
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The approximately 1,500 individuals receiving commutations served out their at least one-year sentences during the COVID-19 pandemic and were deemed to have successfully reintegrated into the community and have secured employment.
International Business Times
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Prisons were uniquely bad for spreading the virus and some inmates were released in part to stop the spread.
Newsmax
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President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of almost 1,500 offenders and pardon 39 others, in what the White House said early Thursday was the biggest number of commutations and clemencies granted in a single day.
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